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Building Microsoft System Center Cloud – SCVMM 2012 R2 – Networking – Logical and Hyper-V Switches
Logical Switch Logical Switch define communication parameters for VMs and for the host’s virtual network adapters that are connected by a switch. That is mean that the Logical Switches also define communication between hosts and VMs (for example between hosts, virtual DCs and virtualized System Center products). Naming conventions You can read about my naming convention in the […]
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Building Microsoft System Center Cloud – SCVMM 2012 R2 – Networking – Port Classifications
Port Classification Just a name that you put on the NIC. It is an abstraction for the Port Profiles and it is similar to the Storage Classifications in the Fabric. Tenants (customers) can set port classification during creation of the VM and therefore you are able for example to have port profile with names Extra […]
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Building Microsoft System Center Cloud – SCVMM 2012 R2 – Networking – Virtual Network Adapter Port Profiles
Virtual Network Adapter Port Profile You cannot define directly on the VM in the VMM special configurations like VMQ, SRV-IOV, IPsec task Offloading and DHCP guard that you are able to set in the Hyper-V Manager. You need to define these configuration settings in the Virtual Network Adapter Port Profile. When you team network adapters […]
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Building Microsoft System Center Cloud – SCVMM 2012 R2 – Networking – Uplink Port Profiles
Uplink Port Profile You need the Uplink Port Profiles to configure how to uplink the information (how to link the hosts to the real network or in other words how to send data to the physical cables). Naming conventions You can read about my naming convention in the first networking article. PPU-<Logical Network>-<Uplink Port Profile> When […]
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Building Microsoft System Center Cloud – SCVMM 2012 R2 – Networking – IP Pools for the Logical Networks
IP Pool for the Logical Network It is a pool of IP addresses that are statically assigned to the host’s virtual adapters and VMs by VMM. I call it DHCP for servers. Of course it is not DHCP but it is automatic like DHCP and it is for the servers. It is always easier to have […]